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Title	Author(s)	Journal?	Publication information	Comments
The Bedford Bibliography for Teachers of Basic Writing. 2nd ed.	Adler-Kassner, Linda, and Gregory R. Glau		Boston: Bedford/St. Martin�s, 2005
Basic Writing as a Political Act: Public Conversations about Writing and Literacy	Adler-Kassner, Linda, and Susanmarie Harrington		Cresskill, NJ: Hampton, 2002
Facts, Artifacts, and Counterfacts	Bartholomae, David, and Anthony Petrosky		Portsmouth, NH: Boynton, 1986
Teaching Developmental Writing: Background Readings. 2nd ed.	Bernstein, Susan		Boston: Bedford/St. Martin�s, 2004
A Kind of Passport: A Basic Writing Adjunct Program and the Challenge of Student Diversity	DiPardo, Anne		Urbana, IL: NCTE, 1993
A Sourcebook for Basic Writing Teachers	Enos, Theresa, ed.		New York: Random House, 1987
Defending Access: A Critique of Standards in Higher Education	Fox, Tom		Portsmouth, NH: Boynton, 1999
Literacy Among African-American Youth: Issues in Learning, Teaching, and Schooling. 2nd ed.	Gadsden, Vivian L., and Daniel A. Wagner, eds.		Cresskill, NJ: Hampton P, 1995
Rethinking Basic Writing: Exploring Identity, Politics, and Community in Interaction	Gray-Rosendale, Laura		Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2000
Landmark Essays on Basic Writing	Halasek, Kay, and Nels P. Highberg, eds.		Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2001
Writing from the Margins: Power and Pedagogy for Teachers of Composition	Hill, Carolyn Ericksen		New York: Oxford UP, 1990
Representing the "Other": Basic Writers and the Teaching of Writing	Horner, Bruce, and Min-Zhan Lu		Urbana, IL: NCTE, 1999
Attending to the Margins: Writing, Researching, and Teaching on the Front Lines	Kells, Michelle Hall, and Valerie Balester, eds.		Portsmouth, NH: Boynton, 1999
Mainstreaming Basic Writers: Politics and Pedagogies of Access. Mahwah	McNenny, Gerri, ed.		Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2001
Research in Basic Writing: A Bibliographic Sourcebook	Moran, Michael G., and Martin J. Jacobi		New York: Greenwood, 1991
Writing in an Alien World: Basic Writing and the Struggle for Equality in Higher Education	Mutnick, Deborah		Portsmouth, NH: Boynton, 1996
My Freshman Year: What a Professor Learned by Becoming a Student	Nathan, Rebekah		Ithaca, NY: Cornell UP, 2005
Lives on the Boundary: The Struggles and Achievements of America's Underprepared	Rose, Mike		New York: Penguin, 1990
Possible Lives	Rose, Mike		New York: Penguin, 1995
Errors and Expectations: A Guide for the Teacher of Basic Writing	Shaughnessy, Mina P		New York: Oxford UP, 1977
The Politics of Remediation: Institutional and Student Needs in Higher Education	Soliday, Mary		Pittsburgh: U of Pittsburgh P, 2002
Time to Know Them: A Longitudinal Study of Writing and Learning at the College Level	Sternglass, Marilyn		Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1997
"Inventing the University." When a Writer Can't Write: Studies in Writer's Block and Other Composing-Process Problems	Bartholomae, David		Ed. Mike Rose. New York: Guilford, 1985. 134–65
"The Tidy House: Basic Writing in the American Curriculum."	Bartholomae, David	Journal of Basic Writing	12.1 (1993): 4–21
"A Response to Ira Shor's 'Our Apartheid: Writing Instruction and Inequality.'"	Collins, Terence G.	Journal of Basic Writing	16.2 (1997): 95–100
"Our Apartheid: Writing Instruction and Inequality."	Shor, Ira	Journal of Basic Writing	16.1 (1997): 91–104
"Writing the Life of Mina P. Shaughnessy."	Maher, Jane	Journal of Basic Writing	16.1 (1997): 51–63
African American Literacies	Elaine Richardson		New York & London: Routledge Press
"I, a Mestiza, Continually Walk Out of One Culture into Another": Alba's Story	Sibylle Gruber		in Kristine Blair and Pamela Takayoshi, eds. Feminist Cyberscapes: Mapping Gendered Academic Spaces. Erlbaum, 1999.
Grammar and the Teaching of Writing	Rei R. Noguchi		NCTE, 1991
The War Against Grammar	David Mulroy		Boynton/Cook, 2003
BWe 2007: Practice, Professional Development, and Favorite Books	Susan Naomi Bernstein	BWe 6.1	Online
"Basic Writing Reconsidered"	Peter Dow Adams	Journal of Basic Writing	12.1 (1993): 22–36	Argues for mainstreaming basic writers.
Basic Writing in America: The History of Nine College Programs	Nicole Pepinster Greene and Patricia J. McAlexander, eds.		Hampton Press, 2008	In the introduction, the editors argue that basic writing programs—named and popularized by Mina Shaughnessy—involved a new concept of writing remediation. Receiving impetus from the American civil rights movement, these programs defined postsecondary education, not in terms of investment for society, but as an individual right. Indeed a major purpose of BW was to facilitate the integration of underrepresented groups into America's colleges and universities.

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